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Accel’s Fred Destin On Why Startups Fail And Founders Get Fired | Harry Stebbings | 2,016 | 1 | 18 |
Earlier in the week I caught up with , General Partner at Accel in London and one of the most prominent figures in the U.K. technology scene. In what turned out to be a pretty candid interview, we discussed a range of topics including the main reasons startups fail and founders get fired; how Fred analyzes the VC/Fo... |
GrabTaxi Rebrands To Grab, Launches Cashless Payments And Corporate Service | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 1 | 27 | GrabTaxi, the Uber rival in Southeast Asia and , will be now be known as “Grab” after the company announced a rebranding today alongside a few new services. The company said its new name reflects the fact that it no longer only offers licensed taxi rides, the service that it started out working with. And that’s inde... |
Samsung Issues Fourth-Quarter Results, Expects Earnings To Slow This Year | Catherine Shu | 2,016 | 1 | 27 | warned investors today in its fourth-quarter earnings report that its next two quarters will be weakened by economic issues and a softer IT market. The Galaxy smartphone maker said it expects profits to remain flat during the first six months of 2016, but hopes for a recovery in the second half of the year. “Expecting... |
Venmo Opens Its Payment Service To Third-Party Apps | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 1 | 27 | Venmo, the peer-to-peer payment service operated by PayPal, has now become a payment platform after it up to third-party apps and services. The feature is as simple as it sounds. Venmo users can pay inside other apps using the service, much like they might shop and pay using a PayPal button on a website. The function... |
What Are My Patents Worth? | Neel Chatterjee | 2,016 | 1 | 27 |
We’ve witnessed significant upheavals in the patent system in the last few years, ranging from a in litigation (particularly ) and at patent reform. As a result, there is a sentiment amongst some lawyers that patent protection is the weakest it has been in a long time. Yet, patent litigation filings nearly hit a... |
SpaceX Tests Parachutes That Will Bring Astronauts Back To Earth | Emily Calandrelli | 2,016 | 1 | 27 | Today, NASA released footage from one of SpaceX’s final certification tests required under the Commercial Crew Program. The drop test, performed in Coolidge, Arizona, involved the four large parachutes that are part of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon landing system. For the drop test, the parachute assembly was carried thousands ... |
Meet The Competitors Vying For The Crunchie For Angel Investor Of The Year | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 1 | 27 | We’re getting ready for the here at TechCrunch, where some of the brightest startups, companies and leaders hope to win the coveted Crunchie award in one of the 12 categories up for grabs. Among that mix are those who write the checks to get these startups off to a good beginning – angel investors. Below are the angel... |
AdStage Looks Beyond Advertising | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 1 | 27 | launched today — it’s supposed to bring more automation to AdStage advertisers, but CEO Sahil Jain said it also signals the company’s ambitions to become a broader marketing platform. As the name suggests, Automate allows advertisers to create rules that automatically adjust their ad campaigns across Google, Bing, F... |
Accel Leads $10M Series A For JobToday’s Service Industry Hiring App | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 1 | 27 | Can a smartphone messaging app replace the age-old CV in the service industry sector? That’s the premise driving European startup , which is targeting the fast flow of service and blue collar workers with a mobile app that aims to speed up and simplify the hiring process. It’s today announcing a $10 million Series A r... |
A Long Game | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,016 | 1 | 27 | the Gold Rush, California has blossomed with new money — first in gold, then in land, cattle, railroads, agriculture, film images, shipbuilding, aerospace, electronics, television and commercial religions. The ease with which the happy few become suddenly rich lends credence to the belief in magical transformation.” —... |
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Facebook Spikes 12% After Smashing Q4 Earnings | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 1 | 27 | Facebook shares are spiking today, and were up as much as 13 percent after the company reported its fourth-quarter earnings. The culprit? Once again, the company completely crushed expectations for its operating quarter. Facebook brought in $5.841 billion in revenue and earnings of 79 cents per share, compared to earni... |
Health Agency Says Theranos Lab Practices Pose “Immediate Jeopardy” To Patient Safety | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 1 | 27 | More bad news for : A federal health agency has declared that the blood test company’s “deficient practices … pose immediate jeopardy to patient health and safety.” In on January 25, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said it identified deficiencies related to hematology and analytic systems, and with the ... |
Let’s Meet In Pittsburgh Tomorrow | John Biggs | 2,016 | 1 | 27 | I will be in Pittsburgh tomorrow for , pitch-off in the heart of Iron City. I’d like to see yuns there. As a CMU grad Pittsburgh is near and dear to my heart. From the O to the Beehive (RIP) some of my formative years were spent in a stupor of coffee and fat. I want to see what you guys are up to in PGH and want to ea... |
500 Startups Announces Batch 16, Focused On Health Tech, FinTech, Vices And Recruiting | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 1 | 27 | Just as investors and journalists get ready to check out what’s new over at 500 Startups at its Batch 15 Demo Day, their team has announced a new batch of founders and startups aimed at changing their industries/solving problems all while making a buck or two. 500 Startups has been aiming to produce a more diverse clas... |
Facebook Hits 100M Hours Of Video Watched A Day, 1B Users On Groups, 80M On Fb Lite | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 1 | 27 | Everything at Facebook seems to be growing, according to Mark Zuckerberg’s call comments. Facebook now sees 100 million hours of daily video watch time. There are 1 billion monthly users now users on Groups, up from 925 million at the close of Q3. 80 million people use Facebook’s stripped down app Facebook Lite for t... |
Social Investing Startup SprinkleBit Raises $10M | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 1 | 27 | , a startup that helps you invest with guidance from friends and experts, has raised $10 million in new funding from GTC. It’s to tap into the wisdom of the crowd to do better on the stock market, but SprinkleBit offers a unique tool called , or VPI — each stock gets scored based on whether the community thinks its p... |
Shelf Helps You Find The Best Products People Actually Use | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 1 | 27 | A newly launched startup called wants to make it easier for people to discover great products, without having to first read through tons of online research or consumer reviews. Instead, the company has built a social platform that lets users automatically keep track of their own inventory of purchases, and selectivel... |
eBay Crashes Nearly 10% As Revenue Remains Flat | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 1 | 27 | Investors clearly don’t like what they see with eBay, which reported its fourth-quarter earnings today — sending shares down around 10% in extended trading. The company said it had earnings of 50 cents per share on revenue of $2.3 billion. Analysts were expecting earnings of 50 cents a share on revenue of $2.32 billion... |
PayPal Shares Up 6% On Earnings; Revenue Rises 17% | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 1 | 27 | PayPal reported earnings after the bell Wednesday, and the stock quickly ticked up 6% in after hours trading. The payments company authorized a $2 billion stock repurchase program and reported revenue and earnings that exceeded the company’s full year guidance. PayPal’s fourth quarter adjusted revenue came in at $2.56 ... |
Facebook Climbs To 1.59 Billion Users And Crushes Q4 Estimates With $5.8B Revenue | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 1 | 27 | By courting users and ad dollars in the developing world, Facebook continued its growth streak. It hit 1.59 billion users today and crushed the street’s estimates in its with $5.841 billion in revenue and $0.79 earnings per share. That’s up from 1.55 billion users and $4.5 billion in revenue last quarter. Even with Q... |
Can Fractional Car Ownership Work? | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 1 | 27 | A couple of weeks ago, Ford Motor Company somewhat quietly announced that next month, it’s beginning a in Austin that will enable three to six people to lease a Ford Vehicle together. It’s not alone in thinking about fractional car ownership. Audi is similarly trying out a fractional car called Audi Unite that allo... |
Here’s What Push Notifications Look Like When You Have 8M Followers On Instagram | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 1 | 11 | Just for fun. Imagine if you had an Instagram account with eight million followers. Imagine if you switched push notifications on for your account. Here’s what your phone would do after you posted a new photo or video. https://www.facebook.com/demydezeeuw/videos/957955867617029 Thanks to Demy De Zeeuw, who runs (the ex... |
Facebook’s ‘Mentions’ App For Celebrities And Other Verified Users Comes To Android | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 1 | 11 | News just in that’s strictly for the one-percenters among us: , the service for verified users of the global social network, . The app isn’t open to all, you need that elusive blue tick of verification/fame to get it. That’s because it’s designed to give verified users a way to easily share public status updates, pho... |
Chinese Gaming Firm Buys 60% Of Gay Dating App Grindr For $93M | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 1 | 11 | Grindr, the social network for gay men, has to Chinese gaming company Beijing Kunlun Tech for $93 million. The deal, which values six-year-old Grindr at $155 million, is the first time that the U.S. company has taken outside investment. that Grindr has two million daily users, who spend an average of 54 minutes insi... |
Jason-3, Sea Level, And Why It All Matters | Emily Calandrelli | 2,016 | 1 | 11 | SpaceX is scheduled to the Jason-3 satellite on Sunday, January 17 at 1:42 PM EST from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Jason-3, a mission from NOAA and NASA, will measure sea level heights around the world. It’s equipped with a radar altimeter which can track sea surface heights by pulsing microwaves down a... |
DraftKings And FanDuel Receive Stay In NY, Can Legally Operate Until Final Ruling | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 1 | 11 | Today a panel of New York State Supreme Court appellate judges decided to extend the temporary stay that was recently granted to DraftKings and FanDuel, meaning they can legally operate in NY until their appeal is decided. , In December New York State Supreme Court Judge Manuel Mendez upheld a cease-and-desist request ... |
T-Mobile CEO Apologizes For “Offending” EFF And Its Supporters | Drew Olanoff | 2,016 | 1 | 11 | After an aggressive response to his company, T-Mobile, being called out for being anti-net neutrality on its new “Binge On” product by the EFF, CEO John Legere has backtracked a bit. In case you missed it, during a Twitter Q&A last week. EFF supporters told him. In droves. Here was today, which is, of course, still... |
Interest Rates, Unicorns And What The Fed Means To Silicon Valley | Bill Reichert | 2,016 | 1 | 11 |
Most citizens of Silicon Valley see the drama around the Fed’s activities as only marginally relevant to innovation and entrepreneurship. But three big macroeconomic forces have supported, if not driven, the extraordinary growth of Silicon Valley startups over the past several years, and changes in these forces cou... |
Hype Or Not, Peach Hit The Top 10 Social Networking App List Fast | Drew Olanoff | 2,016 | 1 | 11 | You’ve probably heard quite a bit about . Some say it’s dumb, some say it’s great, and a lot say something in between. What do I feel about it? It feels fresh. Fresh in a way that Twitter, Path, WhatsApp and Messenger doesn’t feel. Mind you, it’s on a massive hype-train right now so take it all with a grain of salt. B... |
“Elephant in the Valley” Survey Sheds Light On Issues Women Face In Tech | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 1 | 11 | Inspired by the conversation that came out of the Ellen Pao versus Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers trial, the creators of a new survey, “ ,” asked over 200 women in tech — all with at least ten years worth of experience and the vast majority (91%) living in the San Francisco Bay Area — about what it’s been like work... |
Slack Appoints Company’s First Chief Security Officer And Chief Architect | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 1 | 11 | Slack just slated a former Palantir exec for its new Chief Security Officer position and an Ex-Facebook employee, who worked on the company’s AI efforts, for its newly created role of Chief Architect. Geoff Belknap will be filling the role of Chief Security Officer at the popular office chat client. He previously worke... |
Puppy Bowl Comes To Virtual Reality | Drew Olanoff | 2,016 | 1 | 11 | Just like the Super Bowl, Animal Planet’s Puppy Bowl has become a tradition in my household. Every single year we’re treated to the most fluffy, cuddle-up-to-ity pups of all time. This year, Puppy Bowl XII will have a ton of extras in 360 degree video. Long live virtual reality. This year, the event will feature 84 pup... |
Ford Launches New Programs To Make Driving And Car Ownership Less Of A Hassle | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 1 | 11 | Ford announced a number of today that all aim to make driving and owning a car a little bit easier for Ford and non-Ford drivers alike. At the core of these new programs is — which at first glance looks like it’s an OnHub on steroids (with an additional smartphone app). Among other things, this program will let you... |
Apple Rolls Out New Betas Across Its Platforms | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 1 | 11 | Happy Monday from Apple! The company has just rolled out for each of its platforms, including desktop (El Capitan 10.11.4), mobile (iOS 9.3), Apple TV (tvOS 9.2), and Apple Watch (watchOS 2.2). Beta releases for Apple Configurator 2.2 and also became available at the same time. Some of the standout features include... |
Meet The Startups Vying For The Crunchie For Best New Startup Of 2015 | Matt Burns | 2,016 | 1 | 11 | As the event draws near, we’ll be featuring the finalists in each of the 12 categories up for grabs, starting with the nominees for one of the most prolific awards — the Best New Startup of 2015. Here are the companies that have been selected as finalists for this coveted prize, as well as a look back at those companie... |
Netflix CEO Says Account Sharing Is OK | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 1 | 11 | Remember when ? Well, apparently, Netflix feels the same way. In an under-the-radar announcement from last week’s CES – likely dwarfed by news of Netflix’s – Netflix CEO Reed Hastings said that consumers sharing Netflix account information was “a positive thing.” Account sharing is generally a gray area in the world... |
Fitbit’s Post-Smartwatch Announcement Crash Marches On, Dropping Another 10% | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 1 | 11 | Fitbit is already not having a good week. After unveiling a new smartwatch at CES last week, . But things have only gotten worse for the fitness tracking device-focused company, with its shares dropping another 10% in trading today. The stock fell as much as 13% during the day, bringing it to an all-time low. As we no... |
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MesoGlue Is A Metallic Glue That Replaces Hot Solder | John Biggs | 2,016 | 1 | 11 | If you’ve ever soldered or welded, you’ll know that things get pretty hot. intends to fix that. It’s a room-temperature metallic glue that lets you stick parts together with reckless abandon and electrical control. The most interesting part of the entire system is that it allows us to solder parts onto boards which... |
HTC Vive Pre-Orders Will Open On February 29 | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 1 | 11 | The HTC- partnership, which to reveal the pair working on a virtual reality experience called Vive, continues to push towards a consumer release — with their VR headset slated to ship in — hotfooting it after rival headset Oculus Rift, . HTC has now confirmed it will be opening up pre-orders for Vive on February 2... |
The Mobile App Divide | Michael Kende | 2,016 | 1 | 11 |
Closing the digital divide requires not just providing Internet access for all, but making sure that access enables opportunities for all. Internet access can allow entrepreneurs to turn their inspiration into innovation, and their innovation into income. Mobile apps, which run on smart devices, represent in many way... |
The White House Joins Snapchat | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 1 | 11 | After expanding access to President Obama’s State of the Union address by , the White House is now targeting the younger demographic with the launch of an official account on social media service Snapchat. White House’s director of product management Josh Miller – including over 100 million daily actives, 60+ percen... |
Small Businesses Need Quick Action On Safe Harbor | Robi Ganguly | 2,016 | 1 | 29 |
With a January 31 deadline looming and the languishing in the Senate, it is imperative for Congress to act quickly to take an important step in finding a replacement for and ensuring that small digital businesses can continue to operate in Europe. Following a citizen complaint involving Facebook, the in October... |
Meet The People Vying For The Founder Of The Year Crunchie For 2015 | Henry Pickavet | 2,016 | 1 | 29 | Up for grabs are highly coveted Crunchies in 12 categories, and today we’ll be taking a look at the finalists for the Founder of the Year for 2015. This award goes to the individual who has elevated their company to new heights in a competitive market. There are several great individuals up for the award this year, so ... |
Tesla Says CEO Elon Musk Just Bought More of The Company | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 1 | 29 | Tesla CEO Elon Musk thinks shares of his motor company are headed upward. That’s the apparent message reporters received this afternoon from Tesla’s PR machine, which sent out an alert that Musk exercised 532,000 of his options in the company, or about $100 million worth, earlier today. According to an , the options w... |
Apple Maps Had Been Directing People Searching For Abortion Clinics To Adoption Centers Since 2011 | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 1 | 29 | Recent improvements by Apple in Siri and Apple Maps have corrected an ongoing issue where the products had been directing people to adoption centers when they asked for an abortion clinic. Though the company since at least 2011, it said at the time that this was a “glitch” and promised Siri would get better. But not m... |
Is Logistics About To Get Amazon’ed? | Zvi Schreiber | 2,016 | 1 | 29 |
In November 2015, Beijing Century Joyo Courier Services . So what? Well, Beijing Century Joyo Courier Services is a subsidiary of none other than . And earlier in the year, had already expanded its presence with air transportation and trucking. entry into the trillion-dollar freight industry can have huge impa... |
DraftKings And FanDuel Lose A Payment Processor | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 1 | 29 | Daily Fantasy Sports sites like DraftKings and FanDuel have been dealt another major blow today, but this time it didn’t come from an attorney general or federal court. Instead, it came from the company that is responsible for processing deposits and withdraws for the millions of players on both sites. In a by the Ne... |
Delivery Startup Doorman Adds Support For E-Commerce Returns | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 1 | 29 | can be a useful service for people who hate missing deliveries. Now it can help you get those products in the mail again, too. Rather than coming home from work to find a “missed delivery” slip, Doorman customers can set a delivery time between 6pm and midnight that’s convenient for them (packages get delivered to Doo... |
Gillmor Gang LIVE 01.29.16 | Steve Gillmor | 2,016 | 1 | 29 | – Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recoding session for today has concluded. Stay tuned after this show for a recording session of G3 at ustream.tv/G3 |
Snapchat Challenges Twitter And Facebook For Sports Talk | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 1 | 29 | Possession wins trophies or, in this case, ad dollars. That’s why Snapchat stepped up its game late last year by quietly partnering with Stats.com. Now TechCrunch has learned that Snapchat has rolled new Live Score geofilters at every NBA arena and some other matches. They let anyone attending overlay real-time updated... |
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15 TechCrunch Stories You Don’t Want To Miss This Week | Anna Escher | 2,016 | 1 | 29 | This week we saw a slew of Twitter executives leave the company, a voluntary Apple product recall, quarterly earnings reports from major tech companies and much, much more. These are the stories you need to catch up on. Matt Burns wrote about the , calling upon founders and entrepreneurs to find fixes for the city’s l... |
Google Open Sources Its Seesaw Load Balancer | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 1 | 29 | Google today that it is open-sourcing Seesaw — a Linux-based load balancing system. The code for the project, which is written in Google’s Go language, is now under the . As Google Joel Sing, who works on the company’s corporate infrastructure, writes in today’s , Google used to use two different load balancing... |
IBM Closes Weather Co. Purchase, Names David Kenny New Head Of Watson Platform | Ingrid Lunden | 2,016 | 1 | 29 | IBM is taking another step to expand its Watson AI business and build its presence in areas like IoT: today the company announced that its of the Weather Company — the giant weather media and data group — has now officially closed. IBM is not disclosing the value of the deal: it was originally reported to be in the r... |
Apple Acquires Flyby Media, Makers Of Tech That “Sees” The World Around You | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 1 | 29 | Apple’s VR ambitions continue. According to a new report from the , Apple has acquired an augmented reality startup called , which developed technology that allows mobile phones to “see” the world around them. The company, notably, had worked with Google in the past, as it was the first consumer-facing application to... |
Custom Apparel Shop Teespring Lays Off Staff, Exits Providence | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 1 | 29 | Following , custom T-shirt shop has laid off under 10 percent of its workforce and is shutting down its Providence office entirely. The company had around 300 total employees ahead of the layoffs, but not all those who work in Providence are out of a job, we understand. Instead, some have been offered the opportunit... |
Nothing Like This Has Ever Happened Before | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,016 | 1 | 29 | Old World and the States, even now, have but little faith in California. They regard this country and everything relating to it as one grand bubble, liable to burst at any moment…. This is how it should be. The wealth of California is thereby passing into the hands of young, active, enterprising men, who in an older c... |
Spotify’s Video Content Hits iOS A Bit Earlier Than Expected | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 1 | 29 | Spotify’s foray into video has gone live on iOS a little earlier than expected. On Monday, that Spotify had begun to roll out its video product to all users, beginning with its Android app this week. The iOS launch of the new “Shows” section, however, was not expected until “the next week or so,” a spokesperson told ... |
Free, Ad-Supported iTunes Radio Is No More | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 1 | 29 | Ad-supported iTunes Radio stations have today gone off the air. As we , Apple decided it would shutter its free streaming iTunes Radio offering, a competitor to Pandora, in an effort to boost subscriptions to its paid service, Apple Music. Going forward, the only free radio option is Apple’s Beats 1 radio – the DJ-hos... |
The State of Digital In Iran | Amir Bozorgzadeh | 2,016 | 1 | 29 |
I don’t think anyone really understands the depth of digital upheaval Iran has experienced in the past few years. Social media and e-commerce consumption have both gone topsy-turvy in parallel to an overwhelming migration to smartphone devices. It was October 2012 when I first conducted an to share how Iranians con... |
Twitter’s Jeff Seibert On Startup Lessons Learned From Being Bought By Unicorns Like Twitter And Box | Harry Stebbings | 2,016 | 1 | 29 |
Last week I had the chance to speak with Jeff Seibert, Senior Director of Product at Twitter and Co-Founder of Crashlytics (acquired by Twitter for $259m) and one of the main individuals leading the new guard at Twitter. In what turned out to be a reflective interview we discussed a range of topics including what it ... |
Cronofy, The Calendar API Helping Businesses Keep Customer And Staff Diaries In Sync, Scores $1.6M | Steve O'Hear | 2,016 | 1 | 29 | , the U.K. startup that offers a calendar API to help businesses and their customers synchronise calendars, has raised a $1.6 million seed round led by Firestartr alongside Amsterdam-based venture capital firm henQ. The investment comes post-pivot after the company dropped its rather convoluted consumer offering, calle... |
Snoop Dogg On Why He’s Investing in GameOn | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 1 | 16 | Snoop told TechCrunch that he’s investing in the app because he “loves sports” and he thinks it’s a good way to chat about the games. “Fans from all over the world can join me and talk about their favorite teams, best plays, and of course a bunch of trash talk,” said Snoop. A big Steelers fan, Snoop has already been co... |
A Global Perspective Of Israeli Tech In 2015 | Shelly Hod Moyal | 2,016 | 1 | 16 |
From the Chinese stock market crash that shook global equity markets to the obsession with hunting for unicorns, 2015 was a year filled with volatility and non-traditional capital flowing into the private markets. Israel felt the effects of these global trends, with an unprecedented $5 billion in investments, $8 bill... |
Ad Blocking: A Primer | Mani Gandham | 2,016 | 1 | 16 |
There’s a lot of buzz right now around ad blocking. Depending on your perception, you might consider ad blocking a savior… or a growing problem. Both points of view are valid, to some degree. What appears to be a certainty, however, is that the use of ad blockers is expected to grow exponentially. Ad blocking, in tec... |
SpaceX Prepares For Another Rocket Landing On West Coast | Emily Calandrelli | 2,016 | 1 | 16 | Tomorrow at 10:42 AM PST SpaceX is scheduled to launch the Jason-3 satellite into orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. For many, it will be what happens after the launch that’s most important. Shortly after liftoff, SpaceX will make another attempt to land the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket, this ti... |
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Tech And The Changing Face Of Insurance | Jennifer Fitzgerald | 2,016 | 1 | 16 |
It’s only 2016, but the real world is quickly moving into the realm of science fiction. Drones, driverless cars and not-really-hoverboards are (or soon will be) commonplace. We’ve also seen technology change industries not normally associated with the term “cutting edge” — Uber has all but replaced taxis for many peo... |
ISIS Has Its Own Encrypted Chat App | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 1 | 16 | Terrorists are communicating over a new secure Android app after getting kicked off WhatsApp, Telegram, and other messengers. Called “Alrawi”, the encrypted chat app makes it harder for governments and security agencies to spy on terrorist plans. It was discovered by counter-terrorism network known as the , which ha... |
Regulators Should Favor Lyft And Uber, Not Taxis For Safety Reasons | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 1 | 16 | take taxis anymore, but I hopped into the taxi line at the Aria in Las Vegas during CES last week for what I figured would be a faster way to get a ride back to my hotel. I didn’t think about being a woman alone at night in a car with a strange, untraceable cab driver — that was a mistake. I decided to leave my group ... |
Notify Nearby Launches To Help Fashion Brands Share Deals And Content | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 1 | 16 | At this point, we’ve probably all heard (or experienced!) the scenario where you’re walking past a store and your phone buzzes to alert you about nearby deals. The challenge, though, is sending a message that’s actually interesting, useful and maybe even exciting, rather than annoying. Nevin Jethmalani, co-founder and ... |
Dating App Newbie Blume Wants To Kill Catfishing With Ephemeral Selfies | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 1 | 16 | Make room for yet another dating app. San Francisco-based is hoping to entice singles into its arms with a real-time selfie feature designed to thwart catfishing. So no more being chatted up by sex-mad robots. Or wooed by forlorn hopers overselling their dating prospects with a set of out-of-date/overly processed pho... |
Book It, Baby | Jon Evans | 2,016 | 1 | 16 | Remember e-books? Those were the days, weren’t they? Those crazy few years when the fad of reading on a Kindle swept the nation. Now, of course, that fit of mass hysteria is behind us. E-book sales are , down more than 10% in 2015 — — while . Yes, that’s right; print is regaining its regal primacy; e-books are dead... |
Real Customer Choice For T-Mobile’s Binge On Requires Transparency, Opt-In | Jeremy Gillula | 2,016 | 1 | 16 | If you’ve been paying attention, you probably noticed the recent headlines about T-Mobile CEO John Legere and his anti-EFF mini-rant on Twitter. Legere was responding to a question we had asked about T-Mobile’s Binge On service: “Does Binge On alter the video stream in any way, or just limit its bandwidth?” But it appa... |
Apple Is Reportedly Developing Long Distance Wireless Charging For iPads And iPhones | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 1 | 28 | Apple is reportedly developing technology that would allow iPhone and iPad owners to charge their device without needing to plug it into the wall or place it on a charging mat. That’s according to which claims the wireless charging tech could work over unspecified long distances. Bloomberg speculated that the “cuttin... |
Sony Posts $1B Profit For Q3 2015 But Feels Pinch From Slowing Mobile Market | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 1 | 28 | Another quarter of promise for Sony. The Japanese tech giant just its Q3 2015 financial results, posting net income of 120.1 billion JPY ($1 billion) on total revenue of 2,580.8 billion JPY ($21.5 billion) — those figures are up 33.5 percent and 0.5 percent year-on-year. Operating income came in at 202.1 billion JPY ... |
NASA Rover Designed To Last 90 Days Celebrates 12 Year Anniversary | Emily Calandrelli | 2,016 | 1 | 28 | This week NASA’s Mars Opportunity rover celebrated its 12 year anniversary on the red planet. What’s truly remarkable about this is the fact that the rover was only designed to operate for about 90 days. Due to helpful unforeseen surface conditions and few creative software changes, NASA has been able to keep Opportuni... |
Walgreens Halts Use Of Theranos’ California Lab | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 1 | 28 | More bad news for blood analysis startup Theranos – Walgreens has suspended use of the company’s Newark, California lab, following news the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said that lab posed “immediate jeopardy” to patients. Walgreens partners with Theranos, allowing the startup to collect blood draws out of ... |
Susa Ventures Looks to Raise $50 Million Second Fund | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 1 | 28 | , a 2.5-year-old, seed-stage firm with offices in San Francisco, New York, and L.A. , is looking to raise up to $50 million for a second fund, two years after raising a debut fund. The SEC filing is . Susa has four general partners: Eva Ho, who was most recently the VP of marketing and operations at venture-backed ... |
Paul Allen’s Yacht Blamed For Destroying Coral Reef | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 1 | 28 | , the investment firm of Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen, features a practice area that aims to “reduce our impact on the environment, particularly local watershed and ocean habitats.” So you can imagine it more than a little embarrassing when Allen’s 300-foot yacht, Tatoosh, was accused yesterday of destroying a coral ... |
The App Ecosystem’s New Status Quo | Zeev Farbman | 2,016 | 1 | 28 |
Americans spent more time using smartphone and tablet applications in 2014 than they did mobile and desktop web combined. With to be in use by 2020, the platform shift to mobile is well underway. The smartphone supply chain has already become a central and unifying aspect of the tech industry. For the first time, t... |
Lockscreen App Slidejoy Gets A Newsy New Feature | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 1 | 28 | , a startup that rewards users for putting news and advertising on their Android lockscreens, has unveiled a more comprehensive newsreading experience. Co-founder Sanghoon Kwak led the development of the new Trends feature, and he said that previously, if you were reading news on Slidejoy, you saw one article at a time... |
Facebook Shutters Its Parse Developer Platform | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 1 | 28 | Here’s a surprise: Facebook is its developer platform. After acquiring the service, which at the time mostly focused on mobile developers, for a in 2013, Facebook turned Parse into one of its key developer services. Parse will still operate until January 28, 2017, so developers have time to move their products ove... |
Apple Pay Is Coming To ATMs From Bank Of America And Wells Fargo | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 1 | 28 | Both Bank Of America and Wells Fargo are working on integrating Apple Pay into their ATMs, according to a source familiar with the teams on the projects. Engineers at both companies have been placed on multi-month assignments to build the Apple Pay options. I’ve confirmed the identity of at least one engineer who publi... |
Amazon Tanks 13% After Reporting Q4 Miss With $1.00 EPS, $35.7B Net Sales | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 1 | 28 | Despite posting the best quarterly profit in its history, Amazon plummeted as much as 13% after-hours after missing on net sales and earnings per share. This came after the stock had soared to end up nearly 9% in the hours preceding the earnings release. The Seattle-based retail company reported net sales of $35.7 bill... |
Microsoft Beats On Strong Cloud Revenue With $25.7B Revenue, $0.78 EPS | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 1 | 28 | Microsoft today earnings for its second financial quarter of 2016 (I know, that’s weird, but Microsoft’s financial year ends in June). The company reported non-GAAP revenue of $25.7 billion for the last quarter and $0.78 of adjusted per-share profit. Wall Street Microsoft to deliver an EPS of $0.71 on revenue of $2... |
Nigerian Fintech Company Interswitch Could Become Africa’s First Public Startup Unicorn | Jake Bright | 2,016 | 1 | 28 | Africa’s first billion-dollar tech IPO on a major exchange may be imminent. Nigerian digital payments company will likely go public on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) in 2016, sources confirm. The Lagos based fintech firm, majority owned by private equity group , provides much of Nigeria’s digital finance infrastruc... |
Shypmate Pays Travelers To Bring Products To Ghana And Nigeria | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 1 | 28 | , which is part of Y Combinator’s Winter 2016 batch, is a quick, low-cost international shipping solution that relies on everyday people to transport items from the U.S. to Ghana and Nigeria. Why Ghana and Nigeria? Well, the founding team (pictured above) has members from both Ghana and Nigeria — two African markets th... |
Security And Privacy Standards Are Critical To The Success Of Connected Cars | Timo van Roermund | 2,016 | 1 | 28 |
The automotive industry is rapidly evolving to transform the car from a simple mode of transport to a personalized information hub: There will be an estimated connected cars on the road globally by 2020. Each of those cars will be equipped with more than , more than double the number of sensors in connected cars o... |
Apple Acquires Education Startup LearnSprout | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 1 | 28 | Apple has acquired education-technology startup LearnSprout, Bloomberg a bit ago and we have just confirmed. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. is a three-year-old, San Francisco-based software startup whose online data insights help K-12 educators track students’ performances. The company had raised $4.7 million... |
Dropbox Is 2% Black, 5% Hispanic, According To 2015 Diversity Report | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 1 | 28 | Dropbox , citing some progress around having more women in leadership positions, with 25 percent of the VPs at the company being women, but an overall decline in percentage of women. Last year, Dropbox was 33.9 percent women worldwide. This year, that percentage has dropped to 32 percent worldwide. Regarding blacks an... |
Inside Parlio: Egyptian Activist Wael Ghonim’s New Platform For Social Change | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 1 | 28 | Wael Ghonim is an who helped spark the Egyptian Revolution, a wave of protests and demonstrations in Egypt that were part of the Arab Spring, and which helped overthrow the long-reigning Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak. , who worked for Google at the time, used social media to unite Egyptians and create the movemen... |
BirdEye Swoops In On $8 Million Series A | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 1 | 28 | , a software company focused on helping its clients improve their business reputations and customer experiences in real time, has raised $8 million in Series A funding led by Trinity Ventures. As part of the investment, Trinity’s Ajay Chopra has joined the board. Plenty of Silicon Valley luminaries also piled into the ... |
JD.com’s Financial Services Arm Lands $1B Led By Sequoia China At $7.1B Valuation | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 1 | 17 | Alibaba isn’t the only e-commerce service in China with a financial services arm capable of raising large amounts of external funding. While Alibaba’s Ant Financial raised an undisclosed round last summer at a colossal $45-$50 billion valuation, its rival e-commerce giant JD.com’s money-focused unit is also in the mone... |
Axway Acquires Mobile App Development Platform Appcelerator | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 1 | 17 | Appcelerator has been acquired. The mobile app development platform that counts T-Mobile, PayPal and GameStop among its customers has been bought by the B2B enterprise company Axway in an all-cash deal. Chances are, isn’t a company you’re necessarily familiar with, but it’s a large with headquarters in Scottsdale... |
Autonomous Robots Are Changing The Way We Build And Move Products Around The World | Jim Rock | 2,016 | 1 | 17 |
Many eyes may be gazing toward the sky in anxious anticipation of , but an increasing number of intelligent robot systems is already on the ground, in warehouses and manufacturing facilities, helping to manufacture and move products across the globe. These automated systems, which employ the world’s most innovative ... |
A First Look At Mobile Gamers In Iran | Amir Bozorgzadeh | 2,016 | 1 | 17 |
Here’s a fresh profile of the Iranian mobile games scene that’ll provide some useful insights to developers and publishers interested in this otherwise foggy market. We gathered the data via a survey we ran between January 2-10 2016, sampling 837 mobile gamers on our channel on LINE, the popular messaging app in Ira... |
SpaceX Successfully Launches Satellite, Unsuccessfully Lands Rocket | Emily Calandrelli | 2,016 | 1 | 17 | Today, SpaceX was hoping to achieve the first-ever rocket recovery on a drone ship in the ocean. While the company successfully completed its primary mission of bringing the Jason-3 satellite into orbit, it was unable to safely recover the first stage of the rocket. About 10 minutes after launch from Vandenberg Air For... |
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